If you’re at PyCon this week come and meet yours truly, along with Michael Kennedy from the Talk Python podcast, Brian Okken from Test & Code, Miguel Grinberg, Chris Medina, PyBites, and the Real Python Team. Be sure to stop by and say hi :)

Learn how to use Django and GeoDjango to build a location-based web application from scratch. You’ll be building a simple nearby shops application that lists the shops closest to a user’s location, powered by PostgreSQL and PostGIS.

Python has a built-in ast module that lets you inspect, parse and edit Python code. This article shows a real-world example of how you can use this module to detect SQL injection vulnerabilities in Python code.

A sampling of how Python is used at Netflix: “We use Python through the full content lifecycle, from deciding which content to fund all the way to operating the CDN that serves the final video to 148 million members.”